Corn-planter.



NO- 695-543- Patented Apr. l, l|92.

W. L. BUGLE. CORN PLANTER.

(Application filed Nov. 7, 1901.)

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CURN PLANTER.

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CORN PLANTER.

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CRNMPLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 696,543, dated April l,1902.

Application tiled November 7,1901. Serial No. 81,403. (No model.)

.T all whom, it' may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LUTHER Bo- GLE, a resident of Columbus, inthe county of Lowndes and State of Mississippi, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Corn-Planters and Ido hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in corn -planters, and moreparticularly to a planter attachment for cultivators, the object of theinvention being to provide a device of this character 'which can beoperated to plant corn and other seed at the same time, but in differenthills, or which can be operated'to plant different seeds in the samehills.

A. further object is to provide an improved planter with an improvedseed-dropping plate and improved mechanism for oscillating the same.

Afurther object is to provide an improved planter whose operation willbe uniform, which will not crush the seed, which will be comparativelycheap to manufacture and repair in the event of injury thereto, andwhose simplicity of construction and perfect operation will be a vastimprovement on all devices of lthis character heretofore known.

With these objects in view the invention consists in certain novelfeatures of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts, aswill be more fully hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a View in side elevation,illustrating my improvements. Figs. 2 and 3 are views in section, takenat right angles to each other. Fig. 4 is a plan view with the body ofthe seedbox thrown back, and Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are views of variousdetails of construction.

1 represents the beams of an ordinary cultivator, to the rear of whichare secured the teeth 2 and supported at their forward ends by a wheel3, secured on a crank-shaft 4, mounted in suitable bearings secured tothe beams. This wheel 3 is preferably rimless,

as shown; but other forms of wheel may be employed to effectuallyoperate the planter.`

5 represents the body of the seed-receptacle,

which comprises the base or bottom 7 parallel sides, and inclined endsand made with a central partition A6, dividing the seed-recep tacle intotwo compartments. The bottom 7 is connected at one side bya hinge orhinges S to a plate 9, secured on the beams 1. This plate 9 is providedat opposite sides of the partition with openings which communicate withducts or passages 10 in a block or coupling 11, Asecured to the bottomof plate 9 and made with a common discharge-spout 12 for said ducts orpassages, and on which spout 12 a exible pipe 13 is secured and adaptedto direct the seed behind one of the teeth 2. The upper face of thisplate 9 is made with a circular depression to receive the circularseed-plate 14, which latter is made with a central hole to receive apivot-pin a, projecting up from the center of plate 9 and adapted toserve as a journal on which the plate 14 is oscillated, as will morefully hereinafter ap pear.

The bottom 7 of the seed-receptacle is made with a central circularopening and an annular recess all around said opening on the lower faceof the bottom to receive the seedplate 14 and seat the same therein, andto the lower edge of the partition a circular block 15 is secured and isof appreciably less diameter than the opening in the bottom of theseed-receptacle, so as to provide a space on each side of the partition,through which the seed falls onto plate 14. The block 15 is recessed onits lower face to receive a iiat H-shaped spring 1G, the intermediate orconnecting part thereof secured to an enlargement 17b in the center ofthe recess, and a disk 17 is secured on the bottom of block 15,inclosing the greater portion of said spring 16. The free ends of thespring 16 project into the space between the block 15 and the bottom ofthe seed-receptacle and have secured thereto cut-offs 17. These cutoffs17 each comprise a bar curved to conform to the curvature of the spacebetween the block 15 and bottom of the seed-receptae cle and of just theproper width to iill such space, and each cut-off 17 is provided in itsupper face with a recess to receive the free ends of spring 16, thelatter being secured in such recess by a block 18, secured to the barIOO by means of a screw or in any other' approved manner. Suitablehousings 17c are provided on each side of block 15 to receive and guidethe cut-offs 17. The spring 1G serves to hold these cut-offs 17yieldingly upon the seedplate 14, preventing only the proper amount ofseed to escape, as will now be explained.

The seed-plate 14, above referred to, is provided with two or more holes19, arranged so as to expose said holes to the seed falling between theblock 15 and bottom of the seedreceptacle and adapted when the plate isoscillated to be moved beneath the cut-offs 17 and communicate with theducts or passages 10 in coupling 11, and hence drop the seed onto theground, the eut-offs serving to prevent the escape of any seed exceptsuch as has fallen into the holes 19, which latter being closed by theplate 9 serve as cups to convey the seed to the passages 10.

To oscillate the seed-plate 14, I provide a lever 20, preferably of theshape shown, having two arms 21, disposed in grooves in the plate 14 andprovided with circular enlargements 22 at their free ends located insimilarly-shaped holes or pockets in the plate, thereby securely holdingthe lever 20 keyed to the plate, but permit its easy removal whendesired. This lever is movable in a slot formed by alined'reeesses inplate 9 and the bottom of the seed-receptacle and is provided near itsfree end with a hole to a receive a pin 23 and pivotally secure the sameinthe slotted end of a pitman 24, the other end of said pitman beingmounted on the crank-arm of shaft 4, and hence transmit motion tooscillate said lever and the seed-plate, tio which it 4is connected.When it is desired to disconnect the pitman from the lever, the free endof the pitman can be supported in a suitable bracket 25, secured totheside of the seed-receptacle for this purpose.

The operation of my improvements is as follows: Seed is placed in thereceptacle on both sides of the partition, and one or more grains,according to the size of the seed and the openings 19, (separate platesbeing provided for planting various seeds,) will fall into saidopenings. As the wheel 3 is revolved by the forward movement of themachine it will, through the medium of pitman 24, oseillate the lever 2Oand seed-plate 14, to which it is connected. This movement of theseed-plate serves to move the portions thereof containing the openings19 beneath the cut-offs 17 and dropping the seed into duets or passages10, through which it passes into pipe 13 and is directed into thefurrow, the cut-offs 17 serving to prevent the escape of any but theproper number of seed. rlhe openings 19 are then carried beyond thecutoifs and again exposed to the seed, the reverse movement of the lever2O returning the plate to its former position, during which movement theseed is dropped, as above eX- plained.

Various slight changes might be resorted to in the general form andarrangement of the several parts described without departing from thespirit and scope of my invention, and hence I would have it understoodthat I do not wish to limit myself to the precise details set forth, butconsider myself at liberty to make such slight changes and alterationsas fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a seeding-machine, the combination with a seed-receptacle havingan opening in its bottom and a supporting-plate beneath said bottom andhaving a discharge hole therein, of an oscillatory seed-plate disposedbetween the bottom of the receptacle and the supporting plate and havingan opening therein, a spring secured above the seedplate, a cut-offsecured to the free end of said spring and means for oscillating theseed- Iplate back and forth under said cut-off to control the dischargeof seed through the supporting-plate.

2. In a seeding-machine, the combination with a seed-receptacle havingan opening in its bottom and a supporting-plate beneath said bottom andhaving holes therein through which the seed is dropped, of a seed-platedisposed between the supporting-plate and seed-receptacle and havingopenings therein to receive the seed, a spring, eut-offs secured to theends of said spring and engaging the seed-plate to prevent the escape ofany but the contents of the openings in the seedplate, and means foroscillating the seed-plate back and forth under said cut-offs.

3. In a seeding-machine, the combination with a supporting-plate havingdischargeducts at respective sides of its center, a receptacle mountedupon said supporting-plate and provided in its bottom with openings atrespective sides of its center for the escape of seed, of a seed-platelocated between said receptacle and supporting-plate and having holestherein to receive grain from the openings in the bottom of thereceptacle, a spring secured between its ends, cut-offs secured totherespective ends of said spring and resting upon the seed-plate, andmeans for oscillating said seed-plate to move the holes therein back andforth under the respective cut-ods.

4. In a seeding-machine, the combination with a divided seed-receptaclehaving openings in its bottom and a supporting-plate to which thereceptacle is hinged and made with openings at opposite sides of itscenter, of a coupling having ducts or passages therein communicatingwith said openings, a discharge hose or spout common to both ducts orpassages, a seed-plate between the supporting-plate and receptacle andadapted to convey the seed to said ducts or passages, means foroscillating said plate and eut-offs carried by the receptacle to limitthe amount of seed carried by the seed-plate.

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5. In a seeding-machine, the combination with a seed-receptacle and apartition therein dividing the receptacle into two compartments, of. aseed-plate having a hole under each compartment of thereceptaele andadapted to drop the grain fromboth, spring-pressed eut-offs atrespective sides of the partition and means for oscillating saidseed-plate.

6. In a seeding-machine, the combination With a seed-receptacle havingan opening in its bottom and divided by a central partition, of aCircular seed-plate mounted to oseillate beneath the opening in thereceptacle and adapted to convey the seed beneath the partition Where itdrops the seed, a spring1 secured beneath the partition, ent-offscarried by the ends of the spring and bearing on the specification inthe presence of two snbscrib-- ing witnesses.

WILLIAM LUTHER BUGLE.

1Witnesses:

W. C. MCCLURE, Il. P. SHERROD.

